HBO’s Eastbound and Down looks hilarious. Incredibly crude and politically incorrect, but hilarious. It’s the story of a washed-up major league baseball player who finds himself reduced to substitute teaching back in his home town.
HBO’s Eastbound and Down looks hilarious. Incredibly crude and politically incorrect, but hilarious.
It’s the story of a washed-up major league baseball player who finds himself reduced to substitute teaching back in his home town. Although his money’s gone and fame is just a memory, he finds it almost impossible to leave behind a sense of entitlement and the crude ways of the clubhouse.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
Source: True/Slant
Our one sentence review: Like all Democrats, the ladies of Grey Gardens seemed out of touch with reality, were unconcerned with budgeting and spent beyond their means until they were flat broke and others had to take care of them.
Six months ago Joe the Plumber was just Joe the plumber. Then Barack Obama knocked on his door, quickly followed by opportunity knocking on his door.
Love Joe or hate Joe, you have to give the guy credit. He walked into the lion’s den (otherwise known as Bill Maher’s show on HBO) and held his own.
Maher, of course, does everything he can to make Joe look like a bonehead, but Joe gave as good as he got. Not bad for a guy who was unclogging drains not too long ago.
Source: BigHollywood.com
Has anyone with his own network TV show ever been unfunnier than Bill Maher? OK, maybe Bill Moyers. But we’d call it a toss-up.
Maher’s 2009 HBO show just premiered on Friday night. But he’s already in mid-season form when it comes to unfunny. He ended the season-opener with this suggestion:
“If we killed two random, rich greedy pigs, blew them up at halftime at next year’s Super Bowl, or left them hanging on the big board at the New York Stock Exchange — you know, as a warning, with their balls in their mouths — I think it would really make everyone else sit up and take notice.”
Tom Cruise heard what Maher said and expressed interest in becoming a stockbroker until Katie Holmes told him Maher was only speaking figuratively.
